Welcome to my personal webpage!
I am Mario Cannella, a PhD student in Economics at Northwestern University. In September 2022 I will join the Bank of Italy.
My research interests are in applied microeconomics, economic history, and political economy.
You can find my CV here.
Working Papers
"The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation", with Alexey Makarin and Ricardo Piqué, [R&R at the Economic Journal]
Video from the "2021 Online Economic History Workshop - Damaged Goods: Reconciliation After Occupation & War"
"Board composition and performance of State-Owned Enterprises: Quasi-experimental evidence", with Audinga Baltrunaite, Sauro Mocetti, and Giacomo Roma, [R&R at the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization]
Also Bank of Italy working paper no. 1328, CEPR Discussion Paper no. 16056
Covered by la Repubblica, Lavoce.info
"Vote for Hollywood: the Effects of US Indirect Propaganda on Italian Elections", with Matteo Magnaricotte [draft available upon request]
Work in Progress
"The long-term consequences of Distance Education: Evidence from the first U.S. Correspondence Program", awarded the "Exploratory Travel and Data Grant" by the Economic History Association (coming soon)
"Two sides of the same coin: Labor market effects of party membership and government surveillance in Fascist Italy", with Giacomo Gabbuti and Gianluca Russo